Rajya Sabha member from north Bengal on the BJP ticket Nagendra Roy, alias Ananta-Maharaj, today expressed unhappiness over the saffron camp as well as its leadership in Bengal.
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Rajya Sabha member from north Bengal on the BJP ticket Nagendra Roy, alias Ananta-Maharaj, today expressed unhappiness over the saffron camp as well as its leadership in Bengal.
Rajya Sabha member Nagendra Roy said, “I was practically like a dustbin. The state BJP leadership has treated me like a dustbin.”
Mr Roy also alleged that he was not called in the discussion during selection and nomination of candidates to be fielded from this region.
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Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, the BJP camp in north Bengal feels discomfort since Mr Roy was nominated for Rajya Sabha keeping an eye on Rajbanshi community and the present MP from Cooch Behar Nisith Pramanik, minister of state for home affairs was showcased to appease the Rajbanshi people in north Bengal, according to political observers.
Notably, Mr Pramanik preferred to nominate Ananta Maharaj, keeping an eye on Lok Sabha polls for Rajya Sabha.
Interestingly, Mr Roy, in his close association, said, “Nisith does not know politics.”
“The state BJP has put me in the dustbin. No one keeps in touch. None has asked me about prospects of candidates, before nomination from this region,” Mr Roy said, adding, “I was promised by the party that north Bengal would be declared a Union Territory before Lok Sabha Polls.”
“As I asked Union home minister Amit Shah, over phone, he said Union Territory was not a possibility. Now, the people of north Bengal will decide how to answer the BJP through the ballot boxes,” Mr Roy said.
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